Dozens of projects across Kentucky are in line to receive more than $4.7 million in grants to expand recycling, reduce the amount of solid waste taken to landfills and improve household hazardous waste management, officials said. The grants are for Kentucky municipalities, fiscal courts and foundations for 78 projects, Gov. Andy Beshear and Energy and Environment Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Goodman said in a news release.
The program awards three types of grants: county purchase of recycling equipment, purchase of composting equipment and promotion of creative solutions of managing organic material, and county drop-off events for disposal of potentially hazardous items. The grants include 37 recycling awards totaling $2.47 million, 28 household hazardous waste grants worth $798,964 and 13 composting grants for $1.43 million.